"Hawthorne's ""The Scarlet Letter"". Her last appearance was made at the Boston Theatre, January 1, 1877, in ""The Scarlet Letter"". The later years of her life were passed in retirement, in Washington. She died at her summer residence in Lynn, Massachusetts on August 3, 1903. She is buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington. The Tiffany glass window which she donated to St. Mark's Church in 1889 remains on display. Davenport was most likely the inspiration for the character of Ninetta Crummles, the ""infant phenomenon"" child actress in the Charles Dickens novel ""Nicholas Nickleby"", and her father the model for"
"Francis Dickens Francis Jeffrey Dickens (15 January 1844 – 11 June 1886) was the third son and fifth child of Victorian English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine Dickens née Hogarth. Francis Dickens was nicknamed ""Chickenstalker"" by his father after the character Mrs. Chickenstalker in the Christmas book ""The Chimes"" that he was writing at the time of Francis's birth; however he came to be called Frank by those who knew him. He was born in England and went to school in Germany to train to become a doctor. Giving up this ambition, he obtained a commission in the"
"Charles Dickens novels are littered with stock-market speculations, villains, swindlers and fictional speculators. Little Dorrit (1857) The financial house of Mr Merdle; Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) 'Anglo-Bengalee Disinterested Loan and Life Company, modeled loosely on the South Sea Bubble,- is in essence a classic Ponzi scheme; Nicholas Nickleby (1839) Ralph Nickleby's great Joint Stock Company, United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company; David Copperfield (1850) the false accounting by the sycophant Uriah Heep, clerk to lawyer Mr Wickfield; South Sea Company The South Sea Company (officially The Governor and Company of the merchants of Great Britain,"
"just outside of the garden of a cute bungalow belonging to down-on-his-luck songwriter Dick Dickens and his wife Mary) are now under threat from the ""human ones,"" who are trampling through the broken-down fence, using it as a shortcut. Insect houses are being flattened and burned by cast away cigar butts. Old Mr Bumble and his beautiful daughter Honey (Hoppity's sweetheart) are in grave danger of losing their Honey Shop to this threat. To compound their problems, devious insect ""property magnate"" C. Bagley Beetle has romantic designs on Honey Bee himself, and, with the help of his henchmen Swat the"
"Dickens is also critical of the lack of a social safety net, the treatment and safety of industrial workers, as well the bureaucracy of the British Treasury, in the form of his fictional ""Circumlocution Office"". In addition he satirises the stratification of society that results from the British class system. The novel begins in Marseilles ""thirty years ago"" (c. 1826), with the notorious murderer Rigaud telling his cellmate John Baptiste Cavalletto how he killed his wife. Arthur Clennam is detained in Marseilles with a group of travellers in quarantine. He meets new friends in the quarantine. He is returning to"
"twelve years in Canada, only ""edited"" by Nicol. It is still frequently mistaken for non-fiction. Frank Dickens also appears in the science fiction novel that deals with the NWMP in an alternative history, ""The Apparition Trail"" (2004) by Lisa Smedman. In the novels ""The Winnipeg Wolf"" and ""The Search for Spade"" belonging to the ""Inspector Bucket NWMP"" series by Jeremy Allen the leading character, Francis Bucket, is based on Francis Dickens. He is played by Joe Prospero in the TV mini-series """". In 2007 a Fringe festival play called ""Dickens of the Mounted"" based on Nicol's novel toured several Canadian"
"thieves. It is the last scene of the last episode. Oliver Twist (character) Oliver Twist is the title character and protagonist of the novel ""Oliver Twist"" by Charles Dickens. He was the first child protagonist in an English novel. Based in the 1820s, the orphan, young Oliver is born in a parish workhouse in an unnamed town. His unmarried mother dies during labour. Old Sally, who was present at the birth, takes from the dying woman a locket and ring. Mr Bumble, the Beadle, names the boy Oliver Twist. Oliver is sent to an orphanage, run by Mrs. Mann, until"
"first Victorian novel with a child protagonist. On 2 April 1836, after a one-year engagement, and between episodes two and three of ""The Pickwick Papers"", Dickens married Catherine Thomson Hogarth (1816–1879), the daughter of George Hogarth, editor of the ""Evening Chronicle"". They were married in St. Luke's Church, Chelsea, London. After a brief honeymoon in Chalk in Kent, the couple returned to lodgings at Furnival's Inn. The first of their ten children, Charley, was born in January 1837, and a few months later the family set up home in Bloomsbury at 48 Doughty Street, London, (on which Charles had a"
"Pinch from ""Martin Chuzzlewit""; Lilian, the child who appears in Trotty Veck's visions in ""The Chimes""; and Dot Peerybingle, the sister in ""The Cricket on the Hearth"". Unlike Hogarth, Dickens' wife Catherine does not appear to have been the inspiration for any of his characters. Mary Hogarth Mary Scott Hogarth (26 October 1819 – 7 May 1837) was the sister of Catherine Dickens ( Hogarth) and the sister-in-law of Charles Dickens. Hogarth first met Charles Dickens aged 14, and after Dickens married Hogarth's sister Catherine, Mary lived with the couple for a year. Hogarth died suddenly in 1837, which caused"
"Twenty Years After Twenty Years After () is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, first serialized from January to August 1845. A book of ""The d'Artagnan Romances"", it is a sequel to ""The Three Musketeers"" and precedes ""The Vicomte de Bragelonne"" (which includes the sub-plot ""Man in the Iron Mask""). The novel follows events in France during the Fronde, during the childhood reign of Louis XIV, and in England near the end of the English Civil War, leading up to the victory of Oliver Cromwell and the execution of King Charles I. Through the words of the main characters, particularly Athos,"
"whom Captain Rawdon Crawley lusts after in his younger days. Becky Sharp is perceived as a demimondaine before she is presented at court, and then becomes one when she travels through Europe after her husband abandons her. Possibly the most famous portrayal of the demimonde, albeit from before the word was coined, is in Verdi's opera ""La traviata"" (1853). The opera, in turn, was inspired by Alexandre Dumas the younger's ""La Dame aux Camélias;"" Marguerite Gautier, the heroine of the book and subsequent play, was based on Marie Duplessis, 1840s Paris courtesan and mistress to a number of prominent men,"
"In Hugh Walpole's ""Fortitude"", the protagonist Peter references ""Peregrine Pickle"" as a text that inspires him to document his own memoirs. ""The Expedition of Humphry Clinker"" was adapted for radio in three one-hour episodes in August 2008. It was dramatised by Yvonne Antrobus and starred Stuart McLoughlin as Clinker and Nigel Anthony as Mathew Bramble. Tobias Smollett Tobias George Smollett (19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish poet and author. He was best known for his picaresque novels, such as ""The Adventures of Roderick Random"" (1748) and ""The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle"" (1751), and ""The Expedition of"
"Tobias Smollett Tobias George Smollett (19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish poet and author. He was best known for his picaresque novels, such as ""The Adventures of Roderick Random"" (1748) and ""The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle"" (1751), and ""The Expedition of Humphry Clinker"" (1771), which influenced later novelists including Charles Dickens. His novels were amended liberally by printers; a definitive edition of each of his works was edited by Dr O. M. Brack, Jr, to correct variants. Smollett was born at Dalquhurn, now part of Renton, in present-day West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. He was the fourth son"
"lives out her days. Mr. Stimpson and Mr. Gorse Mr. Stimpson and Mr. Gorse is a 1953 novel by Patrick Hamilton, the second in the Gorse Trilogy. The United Kingdom TV drama ""The Charmer"" from 1987, is somewhat loosely based on this novel, though the number of changes were sufficient for the dramatist, Allan Prior, to issue a novelisation of the TV series. Ernest Ralph Gorse, a suave psychopath and conman, relocates to Reading, Berkshire, to stay at the home of a wealthy friend who is visiting Paris. Gorse meets Joan Plumleigh-Bruce at a pub and decides to target her"
"Dickens by his friend, Angela Burdett-Coutts. In an 1844 stage version of ""Martin Chuzzlewit"" authorised by Dickens at the Queen's Theatre Sarah Gamp was played by the actor and comedian Thomas Manders. Mrs. Gamp appears in ""Dickensian"", at first nursing Little Nell at the Old Curiosity Shop and later tending to Silas Wegg (from ""Our Mutual Friend""), played by Pauline Collins. Sarah Gamp Sarah or Sairey Gamp is a nurse in the novel ""Martin Chuzzlewit"" by Charles Dickens, first published as a serial in 1843–1844. Mrs. Gamp, as she is usually referred to, is dissolute, sloppy and generally drunk. She"
"Oliver Twist (character) Oliver Twist is the title character and protagonist of the novel ""Oliver Twist"" by Charles Dickens. He was the first child protagonist in an English novel. Based in the 1820s, the orphan, young Oliver is born in a parish workhouse in an unnamed town. His unmarried mother dies during labour. Old Sally, who was present at the birth, takes from the dying woman a locket and ring. Mr Bumble, the Beadle, names the boy Oliver Twist. Oliver is sent to an orphanage, run by Mrs. Mann, until he is nine years old, when he is returned to"
"the Leader of the House of Commons; the Red Queen is Joseph Chamberlain, the Duchess is Lord Salisbury, Crumpty-Bumpty is Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the Walrus is William Vernon Harcourt, the Dalmeny Cat is Lord Rosebery, and the Caterpillar is Winston Churchill. The book features 40 drawings after the originals by John Tenniel which were drawn by journalist J. Stafford Ransome, credited as ""S.R."". Clara in Blunderland Clara in Blunderland is a novel by Caroline Lewis (pseudonym for Edward Harold Begbie, J. Stafford Ransome, and M. H. Temple), written in 1902 and published by William Heinemann of London. It is a political"
"in the genus ""Schistura"" which are each named after one of the Three Musketeers, ""S. aramis"" and ""S. porthos"". Athos (character) Athos, Count de la Fère, is a fictional character in the novels ""The Three Musketeers"", ""Twenty Years After"", and ""The Vicomte de Bragelonne"" by Alexandre Dumas, père. He is a highly fictionalised version of the historical musketeer Armand de Sillègue d'Athos d'Autevielle (1615–1644). In ""The Three Musketeers"", he and the other two musketeers, Porthos and Aramis, are friends of the novel's protagonist, d'Artagnan. He has a mysterious past connecting him with the villain of the novel, Milady de Winter."
"Mr. Stimpson and Mr. Gorse Mr. Stimpson and Mr. Gorse is a 1953 novel by Patrick Hamilton, the second in the Gorse Trilogy. The United Kingdom TV drama ""The Charmer"" from 1987, is somewhat loosely based on this novel, though the number of changes were sufficient for the dramatist, Allan Prior, to issue a novelisation of the TV series. Ernest Ralph Gorse, a suave psychopath and conman, relocates to Reading, Berkshire, to stay at the home of a wealthy friend who is visiting Paris. Gorse meets Joan Plumleigh-Bruce at a pub and decides to target her in a fraud scheme."
"1969 Jingle was played by Aubrey Woods. Patrick Malahide played Mr. Jingle in 1985 for the BBC's ""The Pickwick Papers"". Alfred Jingle Alfred Jingle is a fictional character who appears in the novel ""The Pickwick Papers"" by Charles Dickens. He is a strolling actor and an engaging charlatan and trickster noted for his bizarre anecdotes and distinctive mangling of English syntax. He first appears in chapter two of the novel and accompanies the Pickwickians on their first coach journey. As they leave the Golden Cross Inn at Charing Cross, Jingle holds forth in characteristic mode on the dangers of decapitation"
"line to the works of Charles Dickens in England, particularly his 1838 work ""Nicholas Nickleby"" (which featured a similar storyline), and the 1844 novel ""Martin Chuzzlewit"", which also featured criticisms of class society in the United States. The story centres on the wealthy and prosperous Harley family, consisting of: Frank (the father), Gazella (the mother), and their nine children. After a series of bad investments results in bankruptcy, the Harleys are forced into destitution, which in turn leads to Frank's untimely death from excessive drinking. Gazella continues life as a seamstress in order to provide for her children, two of"
"Alfred Jingle Alfred Jingle is a fictional character who appears in the novel ""The Pickwick Papers"" by Charles Dickens. He is a strolling actor and an engaging charlatan and trickster noted for his bizarre anecdotes and distinctive mangling of English syntax. He first appears in chapter two of the novel and accompanies the Pickwickians on their first coach journey. As they leave the Golden Cross Inn at Charing Cross, Jingle holds forth in characteristic mode on the dangers of decapitation as illustrated by low archways and the example of King Charles I, beheaded at nearby Whitehall Palace: ""Heads, heads -"
"bit."" In cinema, the CGI movie ""Barbie in a Christmas Carol"" features a snooty cat named Chuzzlewit who is the pet of Barbie's character Eden Starling. John Travolta's character quotes from the novel in ""A Love Song for Bobby Long"". The novel features prominently in Jasper Fforde's novel ""The Eyre Affair"". Martin Chuzzlewit The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (commonly known as Martin Chuzzlewit) is a novel by Charles Dickens, considered the last of his picaresque novels. It was originally serialised between 1842 and 1844. While writing it Dickens told a friend that he thought it his best work,"
"character's uncle, Charles Tregellis, is the center of the London fashion world, until Brummell ultimately supplants him. Tregellis's subsequent death from mortification serves as a ""deus ex machina"" in that it resolves Rodney Stone's family poverty. Georgette Heyer, author of a number of Regency romance novels, included Brummell as a character in her 1935 novel ""Regency Buck"". He is also referred to, or figures as a minor character, in the work of later writers of this genre. More recently, Brummell was made the detective-hero of a series of period mysteries by Californian novelist Rosemary Stevens, starting with ""Death on a"
"also still acted in the Netherlands. His novels are distinguished by their vigorous style and able characterization. The earlier, better-known ones betray the writer's English proclivities. The plots of ""Mary Hollis"" (1860, 3 vols, English translation, London 1872, under the title of ""Mary Hollis, a Romance of the Days of Charles II and William, Prince of Orange"", 3 vols) and of ""Mylady Carlisle"" (1864, 4 vols) are laid in England, whereas those of his ""Sinjeur Semeyns"" (1875, 3 vols), a powerful picture of the terrible year 1672, and of ""De kapitein van de lijfgarde"" (1888, 3 vols, English adaptation, 1896,"
"Maylie is the long-lost sister of Agnes, and thus Oliver's aunt. She marries her sweetheart Harry Maylie, who gives up his political ambitions to become a parson, drawing all their friends to settle near them. Oliver lives happily with Mr Brownlow, who adopts him. Noah becomes a paid, semi-professional police informer. The Bumbles lose their positions and are reduced to poverty, ending up in the workhouse themselves. Charley Bates, horrified by Sikes' murder of Nancy, becomes an honest citizen, moves to the country, and eventually becomes prosperous. In ""Oliver Twist"", Dickens mixes grim realism with merciless satire to describe the"
"Timothy Crabshaw, redressing grievances. These characters are obviously inspired by Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, and Smollett's novel has been compared unfavorably with Cervantes'. The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, a novel by Tobias Smollett, was published in 1760 in the monthly paper ""The British Magazine"". Its first number, published in January, 1760, contained the first installment of Smollett’s fourth novel. The novel, Smollett's shortest, differs stylistically from his previous works. Sir Launcelot is virtuous and strange, and he is surrounded by a Smollettian menagerie whose various jargons are part"
"was particularly true in the era before the Second World War, for example, during the Edwardian era, and in the 1920s and 1930s. An early chapter of Dickens's famous first novel ""The Pickwick Papers"", serialised as early as 1836, features a brief description of a cricket match between the All-Muggleton team and the Dingley Dell Cricket Club. Mr Pickwick watches as Mr Jingle provides a running commentary on the game (""""Capital game—smart sport—fine exercise—very"""" is a typical Jingle comment.) Cricket also plays a prominent part in ""Tom Brown's Schooldays"" (1857), Thomas Hughes' classic novel of life at Rugby. A century"
"several subgenres popular in Dickens' time, as noted by Paul Davis and Philip V. Allingham. ""Great Expectations"" contains many comic scenes and eccentric personalities, which play an integral part in both the plot and the theme. Among the notable comic episodes are Pip's Christmas dinner in chapter 4, Wopsle's ""Hamlet"" performance in chapter 31, and Wemmick's marriage in chapter 55. Many of the characters have eccentricities: Jaggers with his punctillious lawyerly ways; the contrariness of his clerk, Wemmick, at work advising Pip to invest in ""portable property"", while in private living in a cottage converted into a castle; and the"
"as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. Among fellow writers, Dickens has been both lionised and mocked. Leo Tolstoy, G. K. Chesterton, and George Orwell praised his realism, comic voice, prose fluency, and satiric caricature, as well as his passionate advocacy on behalf of children and the poor. French writer Jules Verne called Dickens his favourite writer, writing his novels ""stand alone, dwarfing all others by their amazing power and felicity of expression."" Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh was inspired by Dickens's novels in several of his paintings like ""Vincent's Chair"" and in an 1889 letter to his sister"
"Crundells. The character of one of her ancestors, """"Mad Jack"""" Ramkin, was inspired from John ""Mad Jack"" Fuller of Sussex (&/or John ""Mad Jack"" Mytton of Shropshire). Vimes' involvement in preventing a pointless war with Klatch in the novel ""Jingo"" led to his being once more rewarded with an unwanted title, in this case, Duke of Ankh. He now finds himself in the awkward position of continuing to despise the ruling classes of the city, while actually being a member of them. In the course of his mission to Überwald as ambassador, he was disgusted to learn that he was"
"Oliver Twist Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is Charles Dickens's second novel, and was first published as a serial 1837–39. The story centres on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Oliver travels to London, where he meets ""The Artful Dodger"", a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal, Fagin. ""Oliver Twist"" is notable for its unromantic portrayal by Dickens of criminals and their sordid lives, as well as for exposing the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century."
"Rudy Wiebe. In recent decades, Francis Dickens has been depicted as a comic figure. In ""W.G. Grace's Last Case"" (1984), by William Rushton, in a fantastic plot that includes fictional characters like Jekyll and Hyde and Dr. Watson, Francis Dickens encounters Apache Indians and (anachronistically) meets the famed cricketer of the title during the latter's team's 1872 North American tour. Francis Dickens later was the subject of a comic novel by humorist Eric Nicol, ""Dickens of the Mounted"" (1989). The book is a series of fictional letters, a mock document purporting to be a record of Dickens's correspondence spanning his"